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By looking at the history of what she calls "an evasive amnesia, hidden behind repeated commemoration rites," Parlati argues that these works interpellate vulnerability through the "absolute permanence" of nuclear rubble and its phantasmatic traces.
I demonstrate that the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) "interpellate" or "hail" (Althusser, 1971) individuals to form a subject-position(s).
In Bamako, Sissako puts mainstream film language on trial, in the same manner that the people in the film interpellate the World Bank and IMF before the Courtyard tribunal.
In "Love Your Zombie: Romancing the Undead" (103-117), Christian Lenz takes us through the "new phenomenon of the romantic zombie comedy" movie, or "rom-zomcom" (102) Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1969) to films of the last decade like Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004); his repeated use of Althusser's coinage interpellate needs an explanation.
The binary approach is not democratic in its approach but rather seeks to interpellate the other as the inferior other, 'the done other'.
Thus, the city might be contemplated as rhizomatic structure, in its associations across strata, its assemblages, its schizzes and its petit narratives, similar to the ways in which the visuality of the graphic novel creates meaning across panels, not in a linear fashion but through aggregation of visual presences, constantly refigured and reiterated in various interpellate ways.
Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, Waugh would reject "critics and their horrible jargon," as in the discussion of "The New Negro, which attempted both to articulate a New Negro episteme and to interpellate its artists as the constituents of a movement"-a mild example but mercifully short.
(Biesta's phrase "how we call those we teach" encompasses both what we call those we teach and how we interpellate them.) In the article in which Biesta makes this argument, he proposes that we should call those whom we teach "speakers." This argument is based on the work of Jacques Ranciere, who argues that we should work from the presupposition of equal intelligence rather than working toward equality as a distant goal (see, for example, The Ignorant Schoolmaster).
mystical power to interpellate, to call and bid things to come forth
The Trotsky, far from being a much-needed political film, one that actually could interpellate real life students towards the politics of our time, is much more of a family comedy.
it makes ideas and, above all, their representatives move about--kata-agorein, from which kategorein is derived, meaning "to interpellate in a congregation." That which for all of us was initially (in a primary manner) unusual (strange) because it was extrinsic (foreign) to the city is now internalized (in a second manner s our own centre and therefore, since we are citizens, also as the centre of our own city.
In the third part, "The Ruins and the Collector," Duno-Gottberg foregrounds his reading in a notion of collector as coinciding "in the capacity of objects to interpellate." Duno-Gottberg points to two subtle variants and how they appear in Bernardo Nunez's works.
The financialised masses may be virtual owners, but they are also voters, whose political support for funded saving and light-touch regulation of financial services cannot be entirely taken for granted, however strongly the discourses of 'personal finance' interpellate the subject.
According to Standing Order 295, every Member sitting in opposition may interpellate a minister on a matter of general interest for which he is officially responsible.
"The extreme physical violence of the War of the Roses" (221), particularly as staged by Hall, provides Royster with a rich site for analyzing what she sees as the "heroic whiteness of English history," the "fictional whiteness of the theatrical space," and the "'honorary' whiteness" that some bodies are allowed to interpellate (221).